Strange chestnut?
Hi, I collected mushrooms today and I think I found chestnut mushrooms. They have yellow gills and a dark brown, slightly slimy cap, just like my parents told me. The mushrooms were really young. The only strange thing was that they didn't turn blue when I cleaned them. So I thought it could be a ringless butter mushroom and ate it. Now, half an hour later, my parents told me that a butter mushroom should also turn blue. Are there poisonous mushrooms that can be confused? It can't be a bitter bolete. I would have tasted it.
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Hello, this is definitely one of the boletes, possibly a goat's lip or brown (coniferous) bolete. It's not a butter mushroom, as some people here have described. Butter mushrooms don't have a suede-like, matte cap surface, but rather a sticky, greasy one. Furthermore, scum boletes, which also include the butter mushrooms, often (but not always) have a ring zone and their tubes aren't as vibrantly colored. Boletes vary in their bluish color and are often difficult to identify. Here's a brief overview:
From left to right: Blood-red bolete, oak bolete, apricot bolete, brown bolete, and goat's lip. And that's just a small selection of the species found here.
A butter mushroom doesn't turn blue, even the ringless butter mushroom. Generally speaking, all boletes are edible, but they soften quickly, so only young specimens should be prepared.
That means tubes, not gills. And while boletes are poisonous, they are not fatal.
This is not a chestnut but a butter mushroom and it is edible.
more of a butter mushroom, absolutely edible